Gears of War 1 has been on PC twice.

Good question. I haven't played Gears 1 since it came out back on 360 when I was in HS. I was thinking about it today and reminiscing a bit, then popped up some lore videos after dinner and it got me itching to replay it after all these years.

After a bit of searching it appears Gears 1 is available in the Ultimate remaster Win10 version found on the xbox/microsoft store. That would require you to get an acc. there and use that service. I'm not really to versed with that storefront, myself. I try to stay on Steam as much as possible.

Gears 2-3 it seems you have to emulate from what I gathered.

Originally posted by Tex Conway:

Good question. I haven't played Gears 1 since it came out back on 360 when I was in HS. I was thinking about it today and reminiscing a bit, then popped up some lore videos after dinner and it got me itching to replay it after all these years.

After a bit of searching it appears Gears 1 is available in the Ultimate remaster Win10 version found on the xbox/microsoft store. That would require you to get an acc. there and use that service. I'm not really to versed with that storefront, myself. I try to stay on Steam as much as possible.

Gears 2-3 it seems you have to emulate from what I gathered.

Correct. Gears 2 and 3 never got a PC port.

Originally posted by Tex Conway:

Good question. I haven't played Gears 1 since it came out back on 360 when I was in HS. I was thinking about it today and reminiscing a bit, then popped up some lore videos after dinner and it got me itching to replay it after all these years.

After a bit of searching it appears Gears 1 is available in the Ultimate remaster Win10 version found on the xbox/microsoft store. That would require you to get an acc. there and use that service. I'm not really to versed with that storefront, myself. I try to stay on Steam as much as possible.

Gears 2-3 it seems you have to emulate from what I gathered.

Ultimate Edition replaced the GFWL version.
Microsoft account is the same on Xbox & Windows 10/11.
GFWL is a defunct service that required the app to be installed to play games on Windows.

Originally posted by V I D A L:

Originally posted by Tex Conway:

Good question. I haven't played Gears 1 since it came out back on 360 when I was in HS. I was thinking about it today and reminiscing a bit, then popped up some lore videos after dinner and it got me itching to replay it after all these years.

After a bit of searching it appears Gears 1 is available in the Ultimate remaster Win10 version found on the xbox/microsoft store. That would require you to get an acc. there and use that service. I'm not really to versed with that storefront, myself. I try to stay on Steam as much as possible.

Gears 2-3 it seems you have to emulate from what I gathered.

Correct. Gears 2 and 3 never got a PC port.

Neither did Judgement.

Bring Gears 1 to Steam!

Originally posted by Celcius:

Bring Gears 1 to Steam!

Gears of War 1 was ported to PC. Twice, if we count the Ultimate Edition.

We do need 2 and 3 on PC, though. We also need Gears Judgment.

Gears 1 is already on PC but exclusive to microsoft store i think. Gears 2 and 3 sadly not on PC. I had to play it on my Xbox series X.

It still holds up very well tho, gears 2 and 3 got boosted to support 4k and 60fps on the series x. way better than playing emulated

Xenia->Gears 1-3. Tested.... runs perfect.

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